City Council approves $850K in road repair funds to reimburse H-E-B

CORPUS CHRISTI - Local sales tax dollars set aside for job development and growth will pay to reimburse grocery giant H-E-B for the cost of rebuilding a section of a worn city road outside its bread manufacturing plant.

The City Council gave final approval Tuesday for an $850,000 sales tax grant — the first of its kind — for the street.

H-E-B is eligible for an infrastructure sales tax grant, known as a Type A grant, because it agreed to retain current full-time positions at the plant under an agreement with the city.

The funds will rebuild McCampbell Road in front of the company’s bread and tortilla distribution plant, which is in an industrial area off Agnes Street where semitrailers rumble in and out of the city at all hours.

H-E-B applied for the sales tax grant after discussing how to repair the road and deal with flooding problems for nearly three years. About 430 trucks a week on average travel to and from the plant, said Regina Garcia-Posada, an H-E-B spokeswoman.

Company officials plan to tear out the street in the next two months after the plans receive approval from the city engineering department. The pockmarked asphalt road will be replaced with concrete. Construction is expected to begin in June and would take about four months.